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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

a way that important gases such as oxygen and carbon dioxide are able to
leave and enter the plant freely. At the same time, it is important that
evaporation be prevented. If a plant does not possess such a system, it
cannot wait millions of years to develop one. In such a situation, the plant
will soon dry up and die.
2- Feeding: Marine plants take the water and minerals they need
directly from the water they are in. For this reason, any algae which tried
to live on land would have a food problem. They could not live without
resolving it.
3- Reproduction: Algae, with their short life span, cannot possibly
reproduce on land, because, as in all their functions, algae also use water
to disperse their reproductive cells. In order to be able to reproduce on
land, they would need to possess multicellular reproductive cells like
those of land plants, which are covered by a protective layer of cells.
Lacking these, any algae which found themselves on land would be
unable to protect their reproductive cells from danger.
4- Protection from oxygen: Any algae which arrived on land would
have taken in oxygen in a decomposed form up until that point.
According to the evolutionists' scenario, now they would have to take in
oxygen in a form they had never encountered before, in other words,
directly from the atmosphere. As we know, under normal conditions the
oxygen in the atmosphere has a poisoning effect on organic substances.
Living things which live on land possess systems which stop them being
harmed by it. But algae are marine plants, which means they do not
possess the enzymes to protect them from the harmful effects of oxygen.
So, as soon as they arrived on land, it would be impossible for them to
avoid these effects. Neither is there any question of their waiting for such
a system to develop, because they could not survive on land long enough
for that to happen.
There is yet another reason why the claim that algae moved from the
ocean to the land inconsistent—namely, the absence of a natural agent to
make such a transition necessary. Let us imagine the natural environment
of algae 450 million years ago. The waters of the sea offer them an ideal
environment. For instance, the water isolates and protects them from
extreme heat, and offers them all kinds of minerals they need. And, at the

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